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" The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. "
Aristotle
Good
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Good Life
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" It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "
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" The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. "
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" Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. "
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" A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. "
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" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "
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" Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. "
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" Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. "
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" Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. "
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" Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. "
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" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "
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" Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "
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" The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. "
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" The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. "
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" A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. "
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" Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. "
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" Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. "
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" We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. "
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" The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. "
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" Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. "
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" It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. "
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" Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. "
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" Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. "
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" The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. "
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" Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "
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